dimer2
Moderator Emeritus
This barge was holed by a floating log, about 40 foot in length, yesterday at MM 118 West of Harvey lock.
If this is what a log can do to a 6 mph steel barge, I shudder to think what it could do to a fiberglass hull, travelling at....well more than 6 mph.
We saw and avoided the log two miles further west and updated the original securite call, which you could hear being further updated as it was spotted travelling down the ICW.
It is so easy to get 'comfortable' when in the ICW. This is one of the reasons why you have to stay vigilant.
If this is what a log can do to a 6 mph steel barge, I shudder to think what it could do to a fiberglass hull, travelling at....well more than 6 mph.
We saw and avoided the log two miles further west and updated the original securite call, which you could hear being further updated as it was spotted travelling down the ICW.
It is so easy to get 'comfortable' when in the ICW. This is one of the reasons why you have to stay vigilant.